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STTR Phase I: Autonomous Landing of sUAS onto Moving Platforms
SBC: Planck Aerosystems Inc Topic: EWThe broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the expansion of autonomous unmanned aerial systems (UAS, or drones) to new maritime operational environments and commercial markets. The proposed technology will enable small UAS to operate from vessels moving at sea, without the need for a dedicated pilot or installed hardware, even while far from shore and beyond the reach of establishe ...
STTR Phase I 2017 National Science Foundation -
STTR Phase I: A Low Cost Robotics kit for Elementary Education
SBC: BirdBrain Technologies Topic: EAThis project intends to design and develop a programmable electronics and robotics kit that catalyzes the learning of computational thinking, engineering design, and making at a price point that will be affordable for large numbers of elementary school classrooms throughout the nation. Such an educational robotics kit benefits society by positively influencing science, technology, engineering, and ...
STTR Phase I 2017 National Science Foundation -
STTR Phase I: Hydrogen Storage in Catalytically-modified Porous Silicon
SBC: Green Fortress Engineering, Inc Topic: CTThis STTR Phase I project will study the storage of hydrogen on a novel material produced from silicon - the same substance used to make solar panels and computer chips. This unique and patented approach has the potential to eclipse all prior methods of hydrogen storage in terms of pressure, temperature, safety, cost, and convenience. Silicon is earth-abundant and benign to humans - it is even pro ...
STTR Phase I 2017 National Science Foundation -
STTR Phase I: Solar Irradiance Microforecasting
SBC: Microgrid Labs Inc. Topic: EWThe broader impact/commercial potential of this project to develop short term Solar irradiance forecasting, will be to support very large deployment of Solar photovoltaic (SPV) generation capacity, by reducing the cost of mitigating cloud caused fluctuation of SPV electricity generation. This increased SPV system deployment will reduce the amount of base load and peaking generation from greenhouse ...
STTR Phase I 2017 National Science Foundation -
STTR Phase I: Development of a Safety System for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
SBC: NestSense, Inc. Topic: SHThe broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is a safety system for improving the quality and reducing the cost of dementia care. Alzheimer's disease affects 5.4M in the US, including 1 in 9 over 65 and 1 in 3 over 85, and represents two thirds of all those affected by dementia. Despite that Alzheimer's disease is the single most expensi ...
STTR Phase I 2017 National Science Foundation -
STTR Phase I: Novel real-time particulate matter (PM) sensor for air quality measurements
SBC: Potsdam Sensors LLC Topic: CTThe broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project will lie in the improved ability to accurately monitor indoor and outdoor airborne particles using the proposed low-cost, broad size-range, aerosol sensor to be developed in this research project. Inhalation of aerosol particles can result in adverse human health effects, with the cri ...
STTR Phase I 2017 National Science Foundation -
STTR Phase I: Silicon nanowire arrays for the sensitive detection and identification of lung cancer by a blood sample
SBC: Advanced Silicon Group Topic: SThe broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project is the possibility to revolutionize the treatment of cancer through more sensitive and specific cancer biomarker detection. 1.66 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer in 2014 alone, of which 585,720 died. The sum of all health care costs in 2011 for cancer in the US was $88.7 billion. ...
STTR Phase I 2017 National Science Foundation -
STTR Phase I: Specialized high resolution imaging system for rapid batch screening of aflatoxin in corn
SBC: Secure Food Solutions Topic: BTThe broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will be commercially deployable equipment for screening, detecting, and removing aflatoxin contaminated corn from the global food supply. Exposure to aflatoxin, a dangerous fungal carcinogen, has been linked to liver cancer, childhood stunting, illness and death in humans and animals, and majo ...
STTR Phase I 2017 National Science Foundation -
STTR Phase I: Improving Patient Engagement in Self-Health Management through a Mobile Informatics Platform
SBC: SIPPA Solutions LLC Topic: SHThe broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) is a health informatics platform to affect self-management of chronic disease through non-pharmacological interventions. Currently 25% of Americans live with one or more chronic conditions. Yet they consume 86% of the national healthcare resource, which was estimated at $3 trillion in 2015. SIPPA Health Infor ...
STTR Phase I 2017 National Science Foundation -
STTR Phase I: Multipass Sensing for Ultrahigh Resolution Particle Characterization
SBC: Electronic Bio Sciences Topic: MIThis Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I project will generate a new nanoparticle characterization system with the ability to assess the size, length-to-width ratio, zeta potential, and concentration of solution-based nanoparticle (or molecular) samples with state-of-the-art accuracy, precision, and resolution, all on a single platform. The primary need for new nanoparticle characterization ...
STTR Phase I 2017 National Science Foundation
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